Bangladesh’s special tribunal set to deliver verdict against deposed Prime Minister Hasina
A tribunal in Bangladesh is set to deliver its verdict on Monday in a case against deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is being tried in absentia, over alleged crimes against humanity committed during last year’s student-led agitation that led to the fall of her Awami League government.
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-BD), which, according to Prosecutor Gazi Monawar Hossain Tamim, is expected to sit at 11:00 a.m., will also deliver its verdict against Hasina’s two aides, former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and former police chief Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun, over the same charges.
Prosecutors have sought the death penalty for the accused.
A U.N. rights office report estimated that up to 1,400 people were killed between July 15 and August 15 during what came to be known as the July Uprising, as her government ordered a sweeping security crackdown.
PTI
